“We wanted to connect some dots, but in a very light way,” said Ms.
Giovanni and the performers Oni Lasana and Val Gray Ward. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, followed by a hip-hop interpretation of the speech by Ms.
One of the selling points of the book, which was edited by the poet Nikki Giovanni, is that it comes with a CD of recordings by many of the poets and artists performing their work, including an excerpt from A Tribe Called Quest’s “Ham ’N’ Eggs” and “Dream Variations,” by Langston Hughes. 3 among picture books on The New York Times children’s best-Seller list last Sunday. “Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry With a Beat,” which features lyrics by Mos Def, Kanye West and Queen Latifah, as well as poems by Maya Angelou and Gwendolyn Brooks, has become a modest hit, rising to No. “I’m thrilled to say that I was wrong,” she said. Brinlee quickly sold out of the initial six copies she stocked, and she has 10 more on order. “Because some are going to make assumptions that this is violent, or they just don’t know anything about it.” Brinlee, who owns the BookMark, an independent bookstore. “I didn’t know if these same loving grandparents were going to say, ‘Wow, hip-hop,’ ” said Ms. With previous volumes of poetry for children, she had noticed that the books were popular among grandparents looking for gifts. But when Rona Brinlee, a bookseller in Atlantic Beach, Fla., first heard about “Hip Hop Speaks to Children,” an illustrated anthology of poems and song lyrics, she worried that prospective buyers might shy away. By now, hip-hop has become a mainstream part of the cultural landscape for children on shows like “Sesame Street,” “Yo Gabba Gabba!” on Nickelodeon and “Choo-Choo Soul” and “Handy Manny” on the Disney Channel.
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